This news actually brought tears to my eyes - an ancient urge suddenly rised to the surface - hmmmm about 60€ for an upgrade.

I'm glad that the guys finally has finished the 2.0.

But I have moved on - three years ago I removed eCS on both my desktop-computer, server and laptop and replaced it with openSUSE.

It took a couple of days getting the WiFi working (It took about 15 mins with eCS and worked perfectly) on my Broadcom nick on laptop - well with openSUSE it was only able to connect if the signal was strong - it first became stable with the following version of the OS. Now it also works perfectly, but it took a while.

I still recall a small tool that made the windows on my OS/2 3.0 explode into small pieces, when closed - glorious - actually it brought just as much happyness and productivity to my everyday work as all of the animations, wobbely windows and transparancy of KDE4.

For years I missed the PM/WPS but now has gotten used to KDE4 - and here I stay.

Your switch to openSUSE would have been in 2007....about two years after IBM stopped marketing OS/2 (December 2005). Two years is an eternity with respect to the hardware cycle and it becomes almost impossible to catch-up with respect to available of drivers - notably the display ones required for the eye candies we have now become used to.

With respect to missing PM/WPS, keep an eye on the progress of the Voyager project.....its aim is essentially to graft the PM/WPS personality on a kernel (likely the Linux kernel). This may become quite interesting once actual executable code starts circulating in the community.